25 Top poetry books like Sage: Poems by Marilyn Chin

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Sage: Poems

By: Marilyn Chin

3.77

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A rebellious, refined, provocative, and audacious volume from award-winning poet Marilyn Chin. In h…

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1. Howards End

By: E.M. Forster

3.96

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

A már életében klasszikusnak számító angol írónak ez volt a negyedik, a kritikusok szerint a legjob… read more

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"So never give in,"

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Tulips were a tray of jewels."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

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2. The Beatryce Prophecy

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A magical medieval tale from two masters, Newbery Medal-winning Kate DiCamillo and Caldecott Medal-… read more

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"Once there was a mermaid."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy

"Let her have her dangerous will."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy

"Nothing is more terrifying to evil than joy."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy

"Mark that it is dangerous. Trouble has a very long tail."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy

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3. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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4. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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5. Girls That Never Die: Poems

By: Safia Elhillo

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more

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"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"

-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems

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6. The Cemetery of Untold Stories

By: Julia Alvarez

3.68

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more

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7. The Carrying

By: Ada Limon

4.40

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more

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"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

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8. Jack (Gilead, #4)

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.86

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the … read more

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"Those who can't hope can still wish."

-Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Gilead, #4)

"So many of earth's grievances could be soothed by a little consideration."

-Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Gilead, #4)

"He had a way of anticipating memories he particularly didn’t want to have."

-Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Gilead, #4)

"An intensely lonely man for whom life has not gone well - I believe this was your language."

-Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Gilead, #4)

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9. Home

By: Whitney Hanson

4.21

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Home is a poetical map in finding peace, identity, and direction through heartbreak. It imparts the… read more

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"There are some people who are just meant to be a sunrise for you."

-Whitney Hanson, Home

"i know that right now you want to run to them but closed arms will not hold you and careless hearts will not heal you"

-Whitney Hanson, Home

"dear empathy, please stop telling me that it’s okay when they hurt me stop allowing me to accept the knife you see in their side is a reasonable excuse for them to put two in mine please stop introdu…"

-Whitney Hanson, Home

"i told you that you remind me of springtime and i didn’t lie i just forgot that seasons are temporary you can’t tell spring to stay the same way you can’t ask the sun not to set but sometimes i can c…"

-Whitney Hanson, Home

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10. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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11. American Melancholy: Poems

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.48

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years Joyce C… read more

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12. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

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"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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13. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

By: Chen Chen

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more

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"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

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14. The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems

By: Sally Wen Mao

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A virtuosic new poetry collection from Sally Wen Mao, “a consistently inspiring and exciting voice”… read more

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15. Constellation Route

By: Matthew Olzmann

4.31

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Constellation Route uses the form of the letter to explore issues related to contemporary American … read more

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Cover of Sex Depression Animals: Poems (Journal CBWheeler Poetry Prize) by Mag Gabbert

16. Sex Depression Animals: Poems (Journal CBWheeler Poetry Prize)

By: Mag Gabbert

4.54

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

In SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS, Mag Gabbert redefines the bestiary in fiery, insistent, and resistant te… read more

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Cover of A Year of Last Things: Poems by Michael Ondaatje

17. A Year of Last Things: Poems

By: Michael Ondaatje

3.61

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began h… read more

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18. Feel Your Way Through

By: Kelsea Ballerini

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The personal and poignant debut poetry collection from the award-winning singer, songwriter, and pr… read more

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19. With My Back to the World: Poems

By: Victoria Chang

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more

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20. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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21. Amanda Paradise

By: C.A. Conrad

4.26

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

Former United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in the New York Times, “CAConrad's poems in… read more

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22. All Souls: Poems

By: Saskia Hamilton

3.68

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

In All Souls , Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation, and memory into art of the… read more

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23. A Fire In My Head

By: Ben Okri

3.41

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A powerful collection of new and recently completed poems by Ben Okri covering topics of the day, s… read more

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"we need a new miracle of being human. we need a new miracle of being alive."

-Ben Okri, A Fire In My Head

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24. Chrome Valley: Poems

By: Mahogany L. Browne

4.16

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne’s Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait… read more

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"you ain’t had freedom / ’til you climb on bus 62 / & head to the closest mall / for a good seat at the girl fight."

-Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley: Poems

"give me my mother’s bone structure / & her gap tooth slaughter / give me her spine—Redbone got a spine for the world."

-Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley: Poems

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25. Latitude

By: Natasha Rao

4.39

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Chosen as the winner of the 2021 APR/Honickman First Book Prize by Guggenheim Fellow Ada Limón, Nat… read more

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26. Bluff: Poems

By: Danez Smith

4.53

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID… read more

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27. Midwood: Poems

By: Jana Prikryl

3.36

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Midwood is a restless and intimate volume from a poet James Wood has called “one of the most origin… read more

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28. Sage: Poems

By: Marilyn Chin

3.77

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A rebellious, refined, provocative, and audacious volume from award-winning poet Marilyn Chin. In h… read more

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Cover of Two Minds: Poems by Callie Siskel

29. Two Minds: Poems

By: Callie Siskel

4.68

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

In a piercing and beautiful elegy for the poet’s father, this debut volume investigates the endurin… read more

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"To echo is not to repeat, but to diminish. ['Echo']"

-Callie Siskel, Two Minds: Poems

"Friedrich's painting. a ship en route to the Arctic, is en route still in the parameters of canvas, the coffin of the frame-- the art of wreckage, how to figure ourselves in the ruins of what we can'…"

-Callie Siskel, Two Minds: Poems

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30. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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31. Burning Like Her Own Planet

By: Vandana Khanna

4.13

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Against the backdrop of iconic, ancient Hindu texts, Burning Like Her Own Planet reimagines the liv… read more

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